Re: Pleasantness [was: Re: Sound effects]

[Ghee Teo <Ghee Teo Sun COM>]

Ross Burton wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 17:24 +0000, Calum Benson wrote:
>   
> > > On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 19:08 +0100, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> > >       
> > > > Then we can build on top of that to provide locations so you can
> > > > switch the usage profile, the proxy configuration, VPN settings and
> > > > other stuff basing on where you sit (and get bonus points for
> > > > detecting locations basing on stuff like current wireless network).
> > > > Anyway that's a whole different story and does not belong in this
> > > > thread.
> > > >         
> > > This sounds a lot like Marco Polo for MacOS, which I started cloning  
> > > as
> > > Shackleton (http://burtonini.com/bzr/shackleton/).
> > >       
> > And FWIW, it's also what NWAM does (well, will do shortly) in  
> > OpenSolaris.
> > <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nwam/p1spec/Location_Spec/>
> >     
>
> Interesting.  Is this going to be open source?
>   
 Funny :) Isn't it says opensolaris.org ?

-Ghee
> Note that Shackleton is more than network location, contexts can be
> keyed on: day of week, time of day, wireless network, gconf key, power
> source, mounted volumes, connected devices, machines on the local
> network or bluetooth devices in range.
>
> This does make a UI somewhat tricky to write though. :)
>
> Ross
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